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CWB II continues its run of traditional hymnody for Easter with: 357 Good Shepherd, You Know Us … and this song set to LLANFAIR with a text by James Quinn. The text is here (thanks, Mary).

This Easter song is by Keith David Pearson based on a text by John of Damascus and set to AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM. The text is here, and it is in Together In Song (391) as well as CWB II.

This is a joyful Easter song from CWB II with a tune for the refrain and two separate verse tunes. The text is by John Edward Bowers and it is set to SALVA FESTES DIES by Ralph Vaughn Williams. I … Continue reading →

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90 Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG 138 Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24

In the Easter songs in CWB II I’ve done: 352 By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord (Outstanding) 353 Christ is Alive, With Joy We Sing (More Easter VULPIUS action) This text is by Michael Weisse and translated by Catherine … Continue reading →

CWB II gives some of these much longer titles but I have still blogged them already. 348 Easter Alleluia 349 O Sons and Daughters 350 Alleluia No.1 This is another Easter tune. It set to LASST UNS ERFREUEN, this time … Continue reading →

I’m into the general Easter songs in CWB II. I’ve already done: 346 Alleluia! Alleluia! Which brings me to this chestnut from 1965 by Lucien Deiss. It is a lively 6/8 song with an interesting tune in the verses for … Continue reading →

There are two songs specifically set for Easter Sunday in CWB II. Then there are a plethora of general Easter songs that I’ll tackle a bit at a time. 344 Easter Sequence: Christians Praise the Paschal Victim The original words … Continue reading →

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Gifts: Song of the Transfiguration (Haas) Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81 Recessional: Lord, The Light of Your Love … Continue reading →

There are three hymns specifically recommended for Easter Vigil in Catholic Worship Book II. I’ve already blogged 341 “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” a nineteenth century translation of a fourth century Latin original. As this is PD, the … Continue reading →